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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Double Rainbow
Double Rainbow
Swimming in the summer rain
Raindrops dimpling the Surf Club pool
We see a hazy double rainbow.
A father carrying his daughter
Is gently bobbing up and down—
Raindrops dimpling the Surf Club pool.
The Sunday crowds are thinning out,
Picnickers are getting damp
Despite a hazy double rainbow.
The band is packing up to go,
But we’re already wet right through
Swimming in the summer rain.
Christmas carols peter out.
The father’s smiling at his child
Rainbow, he tells her. Double rainbow.
Wedding Cake Island is embraced
By bands of light at either end.
Swimming in the summer rain
We see a vivid double rainbow.
Penelope Nelson
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
